George Sowden was the only British member of the design group Memphis, having moved to Italy in 1970 to work with Ettore Sottsass Jr. These three prints are important and unusual as graphic designs that emanated from the group, and envision interiors that are saturated with pattern on every surface – a full realisation of the postmodern imperative to ornament. Sowden says that he had previously experimented with colour images of patterned interiors (all the way back in 1973) but these must have been very different from the present images, which depict furniture designed by Sowden for Memphis, such as his the Savoy vitrine, Pierre table, d’Antibe cabinet, and Oberoi armchair, and feature patterns that he was developing for laminates, upholstery and other applications alongside his wife Nathalie du Pasquier (also a member of Memphis) at the time. One print also features a clip-art background of Brussels.